Motivational Quotes

Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

- Freeman, James Dillet

Best Quotes about Change

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel